MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 441 The cause of defeat

The reason for the defeat of the forty-fourth chapter

"I took the Thunder 3-1 Camp and the Thunder 303 Mission, and the local garrison group stationed at the Monknaard Castle first set off, and now rushed to the front line. You wait a few days, wait for the group of the Stone Corps to dress up. After the short-term training, the new rifle led the large forces and then came over. Remember to let the team of Berklin carry all the mines made by the Blackstone Gunsmithing Workshop. The actual effect of this weapon needs to be tested by the battlefield. ...."

Claude commanded General Albert, and then sent a letter to General Beechklin to let him know how to persist for seven days, and he would be able to reach the front line within ten days. However, General Albert was somewhat dissatisfied with Crowder to bring the local garrison. He believed that it would be better to bring these veterans to the troops of the Thunder.

Claude could only explain with him in a hurry. The officers and men of the local garrison station in Monknaard Castle were all transferred from the late military service of the Stone Corps. They were brought to the front line mainly because they were good at position defense. Combat, and the old subordinates of General Beechling, returning to the front line is equivalent to returning to the old army of the Rock Corps. I believe that they will play a greater role in the positional defense battle and are more trustworthy than those recruited.

It took only nine days for the day and night, and Claude rushed to the front line with the troops, and then saw some of the overwhelming General Beechklin. So I learned that there are two good news. The bad news is the three defensive fronts, and the first defensive front was lost in two days under the violent attack of the Hicks. The good news is that for four consecutive days of fierce fighting, the battle is finally stabilized in the second defensive front, that is, the casualties of both sides are somewhat large...

"Our Meteorite Corps has lost nearly one regiment, and the Nikkancha people's casualties are close to 20,000." General Beechklin said with annoyance: "We were fooled, the enemy's chief commander, Norbury. The general of Pang. Belundi is a veteran fox who is a veteran genius. His main direction is the eastern mountainous region, not what we think of the northern coastal mountainous region. The three standing army groups that attack us are using the rotation tactics. After a wave of non-stop attacks, we couldn’t resist the wave-like attack when we first came into contact."

"He put the two standing corps that he had just delivered into the attack?" Crowder asked. If the main offensive of the Hicks in the eastern mountainous region is the two standing corps that have just arrived, it is obvious that the troops that have not been retired for a period of time cannot maintain a strong offensive situation, and the combat effectiveness cannot last. Perhaps this is a A good opportunity to break the enemy.

"No," General Beechklin shook his head and said: "The three standing corps are the first three standing corps to reach the colony of Rhodes Bay. They have been resting for three months. We thought the Hicks took Two of the standing legions are placed on the border of the northern coastal mountainous zone, and there is only one standing army on the eastern mountainous border.

I did not expect that the Hicks would secretly use the two newly arrived standing army regiments and the two legions to replace them. The two standing army regiments were secretly dispatched to the eastern mountainous areas, and we were caught off guard by one war.

We thought that the standing army of the Hicks deployed on the eastern mountainous border was responsible for attacking and involving our defensive forces. I didn’t expect Hicks to launch an attack. The standing army on the eastern mountainous border was long-distance and deployed in the frontier mountains. Those Nikancha camps were vulnerable and they were defeated.

I thought that the Hicks had only one standing army in the eastern mountains, and we even resisted the defensive line. I did not expect that the staff report that had collapsed in the front said that the enemy was three standing army groups, and I realized that I was on the table! ”

“Why is the Nikkan battalion in the forefront of the mountainous area so vulnerable, even the decent defensive did not complete once?” This is where Claude feels the most confusing, even if the combat power of the Nikkan people is really Slag, but the defensive positions set in those frontier mountain areas are very perfect and standard. Occupy the land, using the terrain is easy to defend, but before the Hicks attack, even a successful resistance can not do.

As a result, the three standing army members of the Hicks were able to travel to the defensive front in only fifteen or six days, and quickly captured the first defensive line within two days. How did the enemy do this? Did the staff officers of the meteorites who were sent to serve as officers for the Nikancha camps did not teach the Nikkan people to hide in the trenches? This should be impossible...

General Beechklin smiled bitterly: "Claude, this can only blame you, the main reason for the defensive positions in the frontier mountain areas is that the Hicks are equipped with the throwing bombs you invented. In addition, they have improved the throwing device. Can throw at a distance of 134 meters. This is beyond the range of our precise aiming shots equipped with muskets, and can only stay in the field to smash. These Nikancans have not been trained in anti-throwing. When you blow it up, it’s all messed up..."

It is no wonder that the Hicks are invincible all the way, for the reason of the emergence of the toss. Claude is now beginning to regret that the production license for the tossing bombs will be handed over to the military industry of the old aristocratic families of the kingdom. The throwing bombs they produced helped the second prince Weidelik to defeat the great prince Hansback and regain the king. But at the same time, the countries of the Faurea continent have copied the toss, and the Hicks Kingdom is no exception.

“Do they produce the same throwing guns as we have in the theater?” Crowder asked.

"Not the same, as we found on the smuggling ship of the Nasri kingdom last time, like a pumpkin, it is also a fire rope ignition, not like the kind of friction that we are equipped to pull on the internal friction. They can't use this rainy day, and we can, but this half a month is sunny..." General Beechklin introduced to Claude: "I let people take a Hicks. The thrower shows you this, we have just seized these two days."

Soon the four men of Gao Mada hurriedly carried a one-person high thrower. Claude understood it at a glance. This is a simplified construction of an ancient trebuchet, but replaced the wood with spring steel. Cast iron connecting rod. My sisters Anna and Mrs. Sonia have experimented and can throw the throwing throws two hundred meters away. It’s just that Claude’s dislike of this stuff is too cumbersome, there is no way to be flexible, there are so many people to carry, and it is easy to become the target of artillery fire on the battlefield, and he has given up this throwing mode.

Then another soldier took a throwing bomb from the captured Hicks, but the Hicks did not call the toss, but the iron pumpkin, because the throwing ball was clearly carved. Iron pumpkin lettering. This iron pumpkin is three times heavier than the throwing ball in the theater, but because of the more gunpowder and iron pieces loaded, the power of the explosion is even greater. It seems that the Hicks chose this type of slinger-like thrower. There is no way for a thrower like Claude to operate. The iron pumpkin can't be thrown more than 100 meters away.

"This kind of slinger-like thrower should be easy to deal with..." Claude said. Even beyond the 100-meter range of the precise aiming shot of the Obash three-type arquebus, a large group of people are running together to operate the thrower, without the need for artillery to set fire, and directly summon a squadron soldier toward them. The area set fire shooting.

Not to mention the total range of 380 meters of the Obash three-type arquebus, the Hicks Kingdom rifle equipped by the Nikkan people, and the total range of 320 meters. Shooting against these Hicks, you don't need precise aiming, and the bullets can't drift too far away from the target. So many muskets will always have cockroaches when they encounter dead mice. As long as the people around them fall down, the rest of them are not flustered or squatting to avoid the guns...

Or a few light infantry field artillery aimed at direct launching of solid projectiles, such as the goal of gathering a large number of people within two hundred meters. The gunners of the light infantry field artillery of the two regiments did not say ten or eight, and ten shells could basically strike. In the five or six. As long as there are two or three light infantry field artillery aimed at a target launch, the Hicks's throwing team can only end in tragedy.

Another method is that the excellent archers of the two legions take the initiative to attack, and jump out of the trench to advance to the 100-meter range of the precise aiming shooting of the Obas three-type arquebus, and perform a name-killing attack on the enemy who operates the thrower. It can lift the threat of enemy tossing to the defensive position. These are the anti-throwing bombs that the Thunder Legion and the Rocket Corps have trained. With the new rifle, the range of the 200-meter precision aiming shot is enough to suppress the enemy's throwing bombs against the attack or the defense forces. Threat.

General Beechklin was very helpless and smiled: "Do you think I have never used these methods? Do you know how the first defensive front was lost? I can only say that these Hicks veterans are mad, they are not afraid of death. I am even willing to die. It is our sorrow to encounter such an enemy. They hate us very much. They would rather die than be willing to be our captives again.

Up to now, we have not caught an enemy who has surrendered, but we have arrested some soldiers who were injured and comatose. But after we rescued them, their request is to let us give them a happy, but don't want them to recover and then go to work hard.

I don't know how much labor was being used when they were taken away by the emerging commercial aristocrats in the kingdom. But they blamed us for all of us. They are the ones we captured and transferred them to the kingdom. Commercial aristocracy.

Before you left, I sent a letter to Feng Yingying. According to what you said in the letter, I have imposed a stipulation on the Nikkan people who have been defeated from the mountains in the forefront. They killed nearly two in one breath. Thousands of Nekka people, finally shocked the Nikkan people armed with the training of our soldiers.

I told them that they couldn't escape death. Even if they fled back to the settlement, the Hicks army would soon kill, their parents and children would be killed by the Hicks, and their brothers and sisters would be caught. Live to be a slave...

One of the Nikkan people named Duowu made me very sigh, and I felt that he died very badly. Although he also retreated from the frontier mountainous areas, he was brave. After his defeat, he rescued the staff officers who were seriously wounded by the Hicks's throwing bombs.

At the same time, he also organized a ambush of a small team of Hicks reconnaissance soldiers, and several Hicks veterans were close to fight, they smashed two bayonets, but annihilated the team of Hicks veterans, Hicks The epaulettes are proof. Only they are also retreating from the front, so they have to accept the punishment of killing one.

As a result, this one of the martial arts has drawn a killing sign, and the Nikkan people who are with him are crying and crying. He thinks that he is so brave and should not accept such punishment. He is not a deserter, but a warrior who kills the enemy. And his story was spread to the ears of the Nikkan people, almost all the Nikkan people came to ask, to use his own to die for him.

I sent someone to investigate and thought that this Nikkan is indeed different from his weak compatriots, and he also led a team to destroy a small team of Hicks Scouts, who also suffered injuries and prepared for pardon. He excused his death sentence.

However, I did not expect that the amnesty order I gave was rejected by this Wuwu. He was willing to confess to death, otherwise he would only be pardoned that he was unfair to the rest of the Nikkan people who had been beaten. No matter how brave he is on his way back, he can’t deny the fact that he is indeed a deserter.

Because his position was originally in the forefront of the mountain, not the defensive front he is now. All the status and prestige of the Nikkan people who got the news went to persuade him, but they were all rejected by him, and one mind was pleading for death.

I felt very strange. I went to visit him and asked him to drink a drink. This Duowu asked me, I must kill him and the rest of the Nikkan people who had been smothered in the same day, so that all the Nikkan people would be shocked and let them know that the Nikkan people had indeed survived. The most critical pass.

I am a pity that his knowledge, but only as he wishes. That day he was the first to be executed, and I purposely went to give him a large bowl of wine. After saying this, Duowu said a few words after drinking the wine. He told the Nikkan people who watched the sentence that the Hicks came and there were our war zones to help them resist the invasion of the Hicks.

But next time, if the descendants of the Kramer pirates in the Fox Islands of the United Kingdom come to kill and rob, then who can the Nikkan people rely on to protect them? Only the Nikkan people themselves cheered up, learned all the advanced military knowledge from the war zone, trained the Nikkan people to arm themselves, and in the future could have the self-defense ability to protect this Nikkan people.

He hopes to alert all Nikkan people with his own punishment of nearly two thousand deserters, preferring to die on the battlefield and not turning to be a shameful escaper. You may be able to live an active life, but perhaps the price paid is that your loved ones are killed and your own settlement is destroyed by the enemy.

Now that the gun has been picked up, it means becoming a glorious Nikancha warrior. It is necessary to protect one's own settlement and the Nikkan people's country, even if they give their lives. After all these words, he took the initiative to go to the execution platform, the first one was hanged..."

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Claude never expected that the punishment for the defeat of the deserters by General Beechklin would involve such a dog’s blood. This Wuwu became a living creature. Look at the national heroes in mind. After all, with the lazy habits of the Nikkan people, the confinement in the army can be regarded as a rare rest and welfare. It is not enough to deter them. Not punishing the deserters means that all the Nikkan people can escape from the battle. This one is willing to die because it is clear.

"Duowu and the nearly two thousand Nikkan people who were killed by the deserters did have a great shock to the Nikkan people. So two days later the Hicks appeared in front of the first defensive front, almost all the Nepalese The Kamchat armed forces have shown a strong desire to fight differently.

In the face of the Hicks' offense, they were not afraid. Under the command of our officers and soldiers of the Stone Corps, they systematically resisted the attacks by the Hicks, even after the Hicks waved. In the night attack, you can use the white-blade war to drive the enemy away..."

General Beechklin sighed: "I just didn't expect those Hicks veterans to be so crazy, so desperate. During the day, their tossing bombs were suppressed by us, and the casualties were heavy, so they chose The night attack.

First, the artillery that was advanced to the front of the position with the infantry field artillery attracted the counterattack of the artillery placed on the defensive position. Then a large number of soldiers swarmed and launched a white-bladed battle. Our defensive forces and the Nikkan people armed with the guns in the muskets also had bayonets and they were killed together.

But we don't know that the Hicks have secretly pushed their tossing team to the front of the defensive position and throwing the iron pumpkin directly to the position. I have to know that there are still Hicks veterans in the position at the time, and they are even bombing themselves.

We were all stunned at the time, and no one thought that the Hicks would be so mad. A battalion of the meteorite corps that had just been reinstated and more than 2,000 Ney Kamazi armed forces were immediately blown up, and the follow-up Hicks veterans continued to charge, accompanied by the throwing of the throwing ball, the first The defensive front was so defeated by them..."

Claude finally knew the reason for the fall of the first defensive line.

"The first two days, the Hicks still wanted to re-apply, but did not expect that I would place our tossing team in the forefront, directly attacking the charge they launched, and will be equipped with a new type of musket. Directly reinforced camps for members of the tossing team that were dispatched to the position to shoot the Hicks.

Because their iron pumpkins needed to ignite the fire rope before they were thrown, the bright fire at night became their fatal flaw. They didn't throw a few iron pumpkins at all. More than a hundred throwing bombs were quickly taken by our shooters. Half shot was killed and the rest escaped. ”

General Beechklin pointed a little proudly at the throwing device of the trebuchet on the ground. "This and the next iron pumpkin were seized two nights ago. There are a total of eighty-six throwers, three hundred and seventy-six. An iron pumpkin. Now I have been placed on the defensive front and become our defensive weapon..."